Our £400k project will deliver new Penicillium strains optimised for mould-ripened plant-based cheese manufacturing.

PeakBridge VC and Myconeos Limited are happy to announce investment in Myconeos through Foodsparks. The investment will help Myconeos drive forward delivery of its new Mycoforti® fungal cultures for the dairy industry and expand the technology into the vegan cheese sector and further accelerate the exciting innovation program.

This Innovate UK SMART Grant is a fantastic opportunity for Myconeos, allowing us to apply our ground breaking asexual fungal breeding technology to achieve sexual breeding of P. camemberti strains and associated IP surrounding our second generation of novel Penicillium strains for the cheese market.

The project will investigate the opportunity of developing new fungal strains for the European market initially targeting the Italian mould ripened cheese market.